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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

Heh, heh...more wv's than enlightening commentary on the actual specimen?What is this-an "in denial" convention? The first step is in accepting that there IS a problem.The wreckerators don't get that, sadly.

@Ai:

Yeah, but lovely couple or not, it may have been charitable for the wreckerator to leave it up to the ACTUAL couple whether they want their photo to ACTUALLY be SEEable, no?

Wow. This is the WORST cakewrecks I have ever seen, because there just is no excuse: the wreckerator may not speak English or be good at judging distances when inserting words, but here there MUST have been deliberate "let's write on their faces straight off the bat" thinking. And I've been following cakewrecks now for ages!!! This is dEFINITELY the most deliberately f-ed up cake.

W/V: probum - I'm sure whoever ordered this cake had a major probum with it!!!

That's an interesting idea... *giggle* But historically, it doesn't hold water(judging by the neverending supply of wrecks plopped down on J&J's desks). If they have qualms about the genre, bakers/decorators could always insist on having photos brought in pre-digested. Everybody be happy then. Yah?=^@.@^=

Oh come on! Really?!?! They thought it okay to just write across their faces?! Sigh...I suppose after reading this blog for two years I shouldn't be surprised by something like this. I guess hope springs eternal with me.

#1 The wreckerator was hoping to disguise the fact that s/he used the wrong image.

#2 The image is faded, not just incorrectly printed, which ties in nicely with the cracks. Perhaps this was the result of the bakery's "order a year in advance" program, discontinued after the staff misunderstood it to also mean "make a year in advance."

#3 The Literal Bakery strikes again. The customer, not realizing with whom they were dealing, said, "Write, 'Happy 22nd Birthday' on the top, and 'We Love You' down below." The customer was fortunate that the other words were not included.

#4 The message was written on a pre-existing cake that had no relation to the recipient.

@elissa: I get it, and I'm not an OB/GYN -- I don't even play one on TV.

Passive-aggressive manifestation of hate by the decorator toward the young lady who has been obliterated! (some examples, mother-in-law, future mother-in-law, sister of the guy, aunt, best friend...the list of choices is endless!).

But, it's also fun to come up with possible explanations. So, my attempts:

Or it could be that it's his birthday, and his mother just doesn't like the girl very much. Another "blame the wreckerator" cake?

Or they're so vain, they're wishing a friend happy birthday, and stuck a photo of themselves on the cake, and the decorator thought that was just far too arrogant so did this to bring them down a peg.

Or they're a couple who's so perfectly matched they even share the same birthday. and the recently-dumped (or maybe 53 and never been kissed?) wreckerator was so jealous, this was his/her revenge.

But hey, at least the borders were nicely colour matched to the photo. (the writing icing wasn't, though.. .another ding).

@Sharyn, I like that one!

@Siouxzr, I think it says "we" before the "love you"

@Eve, don't worry… if it's a really bad wreck, you've got your very own CW submission. Ever since I've (secretly) started hoping for that, the quality of the bought cakes' decorations has improved. And that leaves me strangely disappointed...

Hahaha!...it's written all over your face. Oh Jen, how you crack me up!

I'm thinking @Craig 2:14pm might be on to something with his theory #3. But still, how could any decorator possibly think that they should write all over the faces? They obviously decided to fit the photo to the width of the cake, as evidenced by the white border on the bottom. They could have made the photo smaller and centered it so that they could write on the white spaces on top and bottom, thereby making the cake not so CRUEL a wreckage. (It would still be a wreckage with the cracks and bad handwriting, but not a cruel one.)

Looking at the kids in the photo, I was thinking they might be twins celebrating their 22nd (21st?) birthday. The inscription would fit for two people as well as one. Krystal K...please tell me, am I anywhere near correct?

Oh God... one thing I really can't stand is when someone at work blows up a picture and slaps it on a cake. I'm the only decorator at my store who at least puts some thought into the placement of a photo. Everyone else just makes sure it's as large as possible.

Today I actually had a customer give me a large laminated cutout of a graduation cap to place on her cake. *slams head into wall*

Well maybe they just like blue goop all over their faces lol. Edible paper needs something to distract the person about to eat it and I say good job..that would sure distract me in many many ways. Maybe you are supposed to guess who is having the birthday and the prize is getting to have blue stained teeth for eating it lol.